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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-advisors-futilely-trying-to-get-him-to-stop-ranting-about-statues-as-his-re-election-prospects-collapse-report/Trump advisors futilely trying to get him to stop ranting about statues as his re-election prospects collapse: report
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According to a report focusing on Donald Trumps rally at Mt. Rushmore on the evening before the 4th of July, advisors to the president ate attempting to get him to start focusing on bread and butter issues that will get him re-elected instead of harping on statues being pulled down by protesters across the country.
As the Daily Beast report illustrates, their efforts appear to be futile based upon his Friday night speech.
With the president trying to fire up the crowd by insisting, Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders. They think the American people are weak, and soft, and submissive, the Beast reported that Trump, decided to focus heavily Friday evening on protesters and Black Lives Matter activists who want various American monuments, including those honoring Confederate, white-supremacist, and slave-owning figures of history, torn down and destroyed for good. ....
White House sources speaking with the Beast explained that Trumps obsession with Confederate statues will do nothing to bring more voters to his side, with the report stating, One of the sources said that theyd already told the president once before in recent days that making statue-defense a cornerstone of his re-election bidwith everything else going onwas a distraction, and not the issue that would move and keep the necessary vote in his column, come the election in November.
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)and ranting in a state of disconnected confusion.
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targetpractice
(4,919 posts)At this point, he's done with the Presidency, he's going to buy into OANN and rebrand it as TrumpTV, and will still be on-air getting his narcissistic supply for years to come.
That's my theory.
mucifer
(23,525 posts)Alacritous Crier
(3,815 posts)Whether it ever happens will depend on the events of the next four months.
Bradshaw3
(7,506 posts)I think he would love nothing more than to pretend to be an "elder statesman" - so weird putting those words next to him - and then go around the country putting on shows with adoring idiots while not actually having to be prez. He could have his own network too.
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)Bradshaw3
(7,506 posts)He must be worshipped at all times.
UpInArms
(51,280 posts)In contrast to the earlier memorials that mourned dead soldiers, these monuments tended to glorify leaders of the Confederacy like General Robert E. Lee, former President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis and General Thomas Stonewall Jackson.
Chainfire
(17,527 posts)how many Americans will make their choice for President based upon him protecting Confederate monuments, while the country is being destroyed by a virus? Of course, that is Trump's gambit; talking about anything but his failure to govern.
Mariana
(14,854 posts)It will make some of those who were already certain to vote for him happy. He unlikely to gain a single vote from this. That's why his advisors want him to STFU about it.
captain queeg
(10,157 posts)People, even some of his supporters, will want him to do something rather than just whine about how unfair he is being treated. Im really surprised that the whole bounty gate hasnt blown up bigger but when some proof that someone cashed in on a dead soldier comes out, that issue will blow up too. The more isolated he becomes the crazier he will act. I havent seen any pics from his latest rally but sounds like his handlers jammed a crowd together right in front of him. Probably had the lights set up so all he could see from the podium was his rabid followers instead of the empty seats like in Tulsa.
llashram
(6,265 posts)I'd never see america sink this low again, since George Wallace that is. Now he's the spirit guiding king trump, queen ivanka and counsellor jared.
kentuck
(111,077 posts)It covers most of the parameters for division.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)A friend of mine, who is a doctor, is very conflicted about this virus thing. He thinks it's probably a hoax, but he's troubled because he keeps seeing patients who have it and they don't seem to be in on the hoax aspect. (Really. That's what he said. No, I don't go to him for medical help.)
But about the statues! He can rant about them for hours. Our Confederate heritage! (We're both in the north, of course. He grew up in Minnesota.) Those rioters! Paint on Andrew Jackson's horse! The horror!
He is deeply troubled about Trump's boorishness and Putin-love and incompetence. But yesterday he was all excited about the statues. He didn't say, "Trump is right," but he echoed all of Trump's phrases and tweets without realizing it.
I had to say, "Next week 3 million Americans will be infected with Covid-19, and Trump is quite literally doing nothing about it, and you know that is true. He's whining about statues because he wants to distract us from the dying people. This is not a president!"
He nodded and said something serious about how people should wear masks (after all, he's a doctor-- he wears one all day), and then went back to moaning about poor Stonewall Jackson.